a. [f. EPIDERM + -OID.] Of the nature of epidermis.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 385/1. A cuticular or epidermoid covering cannot be detected in health.
1853. Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxx. (1856), 263. A clean screen between my epidermoid and seal-skin integuments.
1876. Gross, Dis. Bladder, 48. Epithelial hyperplasm, with epidermoid transformation.
Hence Epidermoidal a. = prec.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 290. Translucent cellular plants, destitute of stomata, having no epidermoidal layer.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 466. On this border the epidermoidal layer extends and divides, becoming, as it were, fan-shaped.
